Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 97

The water-god has given me two; and when we sit there, Nix comes to pay us a visit, and will sing you all the songs of the mountain shepherdesses.

Who acts: we, Nix, mountain shepherdesses · What happens: give, sit, come, pay, sing · To what, where: water god, me, visit, us, songs, you

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, Nix, mountain shepherdesses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 god	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 god	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 water	punct
4	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 given	nsubj:pass
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 given	aux
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 given	iobj
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 given	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 sit	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sit	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 sit	advmod
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 sit	nsubj
13	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 given	parataxis
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 sit	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 comes	punct
16	Nix	Nix	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 comes	nsubj
17	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sit	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 pay	mark
19	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 comes	xcomp
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 pay	iobj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 visit	det
22	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pay	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sing	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sing	cc
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 sing	aux
26	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sit	conj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 sing	iobj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 songs	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 songs	det
30	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sing	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 shepherdesses	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 shepherdesses	det
33	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 shepherdesses	compound
34	shepherdesses	shepherdess	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 songs	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	give	present · perfect · passive		the water god	me		tree rules
2	sit	present	we			there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	present	Nix				tree rules
4	pay	to-infinitive	Nix not said here	a visit	us		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient visit=Asset
5	sing speech: express	future	we not said here	all songs of the mountain shepherdesses	you		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary song=Theme
6	sing		the mountain shepherdesses				nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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